“If
you were to meet God himself in his own house, what would you wear?” This
question was asked by the bishop Renato Cardoso, from the
Universal Church of the Kingdom of God from Brazil, in an official video
released by the church and intended to instruct the guests and the faithful who
tomorrow will be attending the inauguration of Solomon’s Temple, a 10,000-seat
replica of the Bible’s most famous temple, built in the eleventh century BC in
Jerusalem. The new temple occupies an area of over one million
square feet in Sao Paulo and will serve as Universal’s new headquarters . . . .
Macedo’s temple will also be twice
as tall as the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, another iconic
Catholic site in Brazil. The finishing details of the temple include exclusive
chairs brought from Spain to accommodate an audience of 10,000 people, Italian
marble and olive trees imported from Israel. It will have a conveyor belt
designed to carry the tithe of the faithful from the altar right into a safe
room, a huge screen and 10,000 LED bulbs installed in the ceiling of the main
hall, which will form different patterns, like stars. See picture and read
article at -- http://www.forbes.com/sites/andersonantunes/2014/07/30/god-has-a-new-home-a-300-million-mega-temple-in-sao-paulo/
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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